Why you should hate the surveillance state.
I’ve been thinking for quite a while now, as to what it is that I don’t like about the ever-increasing amount of digital surveillance that we’re witnessing. It’s appearing everywhere Continue Reading
Conscription in the UK
I’m sure that General Sir Patrick Sanders who recently came up with idea of bolstering the armed forces by conscripting the youth of today thinks that the young men of Continue Reading
Have you noticed that white people are not allowed to have an ethnicity?
Ethnicity and Modern Slavery Have you noticed how white people are not allowed to have an ethnicity? It’s true we live in a political climate in which non white Continue Reading
Are you Evil?
I’ve thought long and hard on this for a very long time, years, in fact, ploughing my way through the moral maze of intent, unintended consequence and much, much more Continue Reading
Hierocles and The Cosmopolitan Ideal in the Ancient World.
The origins of cosmopolitanism can be traced all of the way back to the 4th Century BC, to the then much loved (as indeed he still is today) Diogenes of Continue Reading
Naturalist Credo on What is The Ultimate Law?
Laws… they are present in all manner of civilisations be they theological or secular. We have the holy man’s act of preaching during a religious ceremony that Continue Reading
Stoic Paradoxes – Paradox 3 All the vices and all the virtues are equal
As this series continues on exploring these paradoxes presented by Cicero, I uncover and mine out the topics of each paradox. The next we come across is Paradox III Continue Reading
Comicus Muo vs The Death Penalty…
With a little help from Marcus Aurelius… I like to think of myself as a modern-day stoic, I like the idea that we can live for virtue, or more simply Continue Reading